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Hmmm, think I will take the scary one out shopping this yule,
John lewis, Ikea, who knows? good post. -
any idea what they call the “cube of domination” at ikea?
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Great stuff, Mike. Trips to Ikea will never be the same again thanks to you and your cube of domination.
Alex
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Mike, this is a work of staggering genius.
Where can a chap get his hands on a Cube of Domination..?
(I’ve already ransacked an IKEA catalogue, but to no avail)Thousands of frustrated anglers currenlty armpit deep in small packets of fluff boxes of this-and-that, wait with bated breath.
J
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Ok then, for anyone who’s still interested, the box is called the ‘Grossby’. My pal was down Ikea the other day and said they still had them in. However, no sign of it on their website.
Nice to see some other folks have found a use for it too:
http://petrasstuffandnonsense.blog.co.uk/2007/09/08/funky_storage~2947482Good luck!
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Hi Mike
I love the site and FARTS merits a Nobel!
Here in Birmingham the Wednesbury IKEA denies all knowledge – and so does the Edinburgh branch when phoned.
What shall I do? I must have the Cube! This way madness lies.
As the Master (John Gierach) writes, “this may be one of those winters when all the flies actually get tied.” But I’m stymied by lust for the Cube, which was the talk of Solihull Fly Dressers last Monday night.
Looks like I’ll have to try to make one – something else to get in the way of actually tying flies.
Tight lines
Phil
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Hello Alistair
The SFD club to which I referred has two stocked lakes with rainbows and browns at Great Alne in Warwickshire, plus a stretch of the River Alne (chub like a fly) and a stretch of Pettiford Brook nearby with wild browns: all about 30 minutes drive from where I live in south Brum. And we make trips to the Dee and the Wye.
Reports of salmon in Gas Street Basin always seem to coincide with chucking-out time and are rarely confirmed.
Phil
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Hi , yes SFD were all ears and have been looking at your site. I have even sent it to a few of my friends too. Who. ELFA.
Keep up the good blog its a hoot. Can someone find the product number of the cube of domination then we can all order it. If you are in Birmingham South all you have to do is e-mail & you might have a date.
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Sorry for the delay Alistair – I had to ask the question and it appears we don’t do day tickets for the brook.
Phil
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As a bit of an epilogue to this saga, I was in Ikea yesterday, and I tried to get to the bottom of this thing. It turns out the ‘Grossby 10 compartment storage box’ was a ‘seasonal’ item, which Ikea only get in occasionally as a kind of ‘tester’. I asked if they were getting more in, and the chap said ‘probably not…’ This doesn’t mean the end, of course, it just means we must look ever harder in our quest for more Cubes. The same chap said to me that if there were any around, they’d be in Area C of the warehouse part, or in ‘Home and Storage’ in the Market Floor part.
Good luck!
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brill idea,now where is that last partridge feather.TOP DRAWER MIKE.
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